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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 301 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Literally illegal. Discussing crimes doesn't equal crime, so there's no reason for them to requeust IPs. And at least in the EU you aren't even allowed to disclose information related to your person.

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 130 points 10 months ago (11 children)

They don't care. It's the film industry equivalent to the Microsoft support scammers. Get a bunch of targets, spam out hundreds of thousands of threatening emails, profit off the small percent of people who fall for it.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had a Microsoft support scammer once... I let him in to my system too..well not really.

I quickly spin up a quick fresh install of slack ware Linux in a virtual machine that didn't even have x11 never mind wine installed. When it was up I told him a friend uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb) to help me on the computer.

He telnetted in and could not understand why any of his malware wasn't working...

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb)

I wonder if he got the joke, or was a scriptkiddie who just relies on existing tools without understanding them, and thought you meant television or similar.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 10 months ago

They’re basically telemarketing workers with hacking tools provided by an employer. They follow scripts and click the buttons they’ve been trained to use.

I’m surprised they got in with telnet and not their usual RDP. However I’m not sure they would have gotten anywhere on a Linux box with commands that are so different, unless they were a little familiar with at least MacOS (bash or zsh based now a days).

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 43 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's not illegal if they ask for it and reddit gives it to them.

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If discussing crimes equals crime then police, CEOs, and politicians should all be in jail.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 205 points 10 months ago (4 children)

More corporations with zero responsibility and way too much fucking power. We need regulators with teeth and we need to remove the legal hand of business from the pockets of our legislatures. I can't believe someone actually burned down Studio Ghibli HQ before Citizen's United was. Wtf.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The people who are smart enough to understand that corporations need restraint are also smart enough to know that burning a single building down will do nothing but give that company an insurance check. It needs to be the people who are in the c-suite, on the board, the consulting firms, etc. it has to happen overnight and with all of them.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are we talking about revolution?

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 157 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I for one want to be in compliance. Here is my IP, I checked it in Microsoft windows so it is correct. 192.168.0.1

Text me at that IP if I need to pay a fine or if I need to go to my local jail. Thanks guys, I'm sorry I pirated and I will re upload all the movie films that I downloaded to try to make this right.

[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 69 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit! My IP is 192.168.1.1!

What are the odds!?

[–] HeChomk@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

Y'all be trippin. I put a mask on my ip to hide it's true identity. The mask is just 255.255.255.0

No one will ever know the real ip.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

Omg, you are probably my neighbor!

[–] skydivekingair@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

upload all the movie films that I downloaded to try to make this right.

😂

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

127.0.0.1 is where it's at .... Do you even IP bro?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

spoilerGet it? It's cause Class A networks are bigger and therefore more "pro" than Class C ones.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Steve@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn’t download Spez’s balls just to step on them

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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 87 points 10 months ago

Spez will happily give it if it'll increase his future IPO

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 81 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I believe that the following IP ranges

  • 103.231.144.0/24
  • 192.31.196.0/24
  • 216.176.216.0/21
  • 199.248.239.0/24
  • 192.198.30.0/24
  • 69.12.98.42

are engaged in highly suspicious activities

furthermore I can definitely say that I found some dirty pirates hiding at the following ip ranges:

  • 175.45.176.0/24
  • 175.45.177.0/24
  • 175.45.178.0/24
  • 175.45.179.0/24

my research clearly shows proof that those people are not just pirates but also engaged in highly illegal activities such as stealing BILLIONS of dollars and hacking who knows how many servers, and that's only the crimes one can talk about online.


if you don't get the jokeno, I didn't share IPs that anyone here would ever have, I guarantee it, if you don't get the joke look up "bogon routes" and then look up which ASN owns the other set.

It looks more legit than people who use 192.168.0.0/16, 8.8.8.8, 127.0.0.1, or any other things like that because most people don't know about those.

Also bonus info:

here's a tip for you, if you're a sysadmin just go ahead and ban those IP ranges on your machines, if you ever get packets from them it's an attack 99.999999% of the time (I guess unless you have customers in north korea? in which case only block the first ones and all other bogon routes)

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[–] Teknikal@lemm.ee 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed reddit has recently started shadowbanning my posts when I have a vpn active so I'd say at this point it's probably completely unsafe to discuss anything on.

[–] 13617@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Absolutely. That and the recent vpn blocking changes has made using reddit absolutely unbearable.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

just remember to be honest with the police and give your real name, Robert'); DROP TABLE Prisoners;--

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 55 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's reddit, so I'd be surprised if they don't cave.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man that place. I know it's cliche to talk about it like talking about your ex on a date, but I posted there for good reason.

I found the solution to a rare bug that was bothering a group of people. I posted the solution, and my account was immediately banned sitewide for violating the terms of service, whatever that means.

I thought to myself: yeah... it was a mistake coming here. Leave it to the bots to have conversations with themselves.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What was the bug out of curiosity

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It was a solution to a Lutris bug. Basically, flatpak containers can use these things called portals to gain access to specific files and directories via a file chooser rather than broad access or manually assigned access.

In this case, my wine installation was crashing because some part of it was trying to obtain a lock on a directory object, which is an unsupported feature when accessing a directory through a portal. The error message is something completely unrelated like can't draw window with a string of hex values. It took me a few hours to track down the real root cause.

Oh well. Works on my machine. Also, there's a fix on the development branch now. I made a write-up, posted it, and it's all gone. I should have known better honestly. It works great for some people but anybody can arbitrarily receive unfair treatment with no recourse at any time. I'm satisfied knowing that eventually the fix will get out to everybody eventually. It's just a shame I couldn't leave a signpost behind.

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 10 months ago

Post to lutris lemmy instead

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[–] imkali@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 months ago

"Why should I care about their privacy policy?" If Reddit doesn't store this info then they can't give it to the film studios.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Then provide better streaming options including price and service. Piracy will always win whether they like it or not.

I'm surprised Netflix is still around at their price rate and the way they keep canceling shows. I jumped on the BF deal for Peacock, because I wasn't gonna pay the full price.

I only have Peacock for WWE, so everything is a bonus. But not everybody is gonna pay for 7 services monthly or yearly. Either put it all under one service or understand some of us are gonna pirate.

Amazon prime is gonna start having ads this month, so people are gonna have to pay more for ad free on top of prime membership or pirate to avoid ads. Before we know, they'll start putting ads in games while they load.

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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 10 months ago (10 children)

You ain't gonna get mine, you fuckers.

Proton VPN with port forwarding turned off...Or Mullvad with quantum secure encryption...whichever you want.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought this was already decided by a court in autumn 2023. Is this an appeal?

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

As far as I understand it, the studios are trying a different angle: They are not suing Reddit this time, but an ISP and want Reddit to provide the data of costumers of that ISP.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 35 points 10 months ago (10 children)

It would be great if piracy instances were hosted on I2P and TOR. Then these chucklefucks would have nothing.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago

lol get fucked wanker bros

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

tl;dr: The users' comments say that a certain ISP is pirate-friendly. Studios want to use the comments against the ISP (not the users).

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"pirate friendly" meaning not snitching on their own paying customers? Wow

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[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Sure... here's mine...

🖕.💩.🍆.🍑

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago (21 children)

Is it possible a film studio, or legal agency, could set up a Lemmy Instance and then capture all our IPs?

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 10 months ago

AP protocol doesn't propagate your IP

[–] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Absolutely. One of the biggest child porn groups is an FBI front for this purpose. I’d google the subject for a link but umm…no

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[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They asking it again? Fuck man we dont even have the right to openly discussed it.

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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

PSA that i2p exists and supports anonymous Torrents.

Have a look at !i2p@lemmy.world

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 18 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


For the third time in less than a year, film studios with copyright infringement complaints against a cable Internet provider are trying to force Reddit to share information about users who have discussed piracy on the site.

In the first instance, US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that the First Amendment right to anonymous speech meant Reddit didn’t have to disclose the names, email addresses, and other account registration information for nine Reddit users.

Film companies, including Bodyguard Productions and Millennium Media, had subpoenaed Reddit in relation to a patent infringement lawsuit against Astound Broadband-owned RCN about subscribers allegedly pirating 34 movie titles, including Hellboy (2019), Rambo V: Last Blood, and Tesla.

In her ruling, Beeler noted that while the First Amendment right to anonymous speech is not absolute, the film producers had already received the names of 118 Grande subscribers.

She also said the film producers had failed to prove that “the identifying information is directly or materially relevant or unavailable from another source.”

This week, as reported by TorrentFreak, film companies Voltage Holdings, which are part of the previous two subpoenas, and Screen Media Ventures, another film studio with litigation against RCN, filed a motion to compel [PDF] Reddit to respond to the subpoena in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.


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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm getting deja Vu. Didn't thjs happen last year, too?

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[–] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Pirates: “I’m 4 dimensions ahead of you.”

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